• Tabooki@lemmy.worldBanned
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    3 months ago

    The US would be swamped by really or desperate people. There are billions living in filth in India. Living in the streets of America should be a huge upgrade

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      3 months ago

      First, aside from literal war-torn countries there’s nowhere where being homeless is a “huge upgrade” (or even a small upgrade) over not being homeless. That’s just not how that fucking works. Second, in the past (and present) poor Chinese people did in fact enter the US in large numbers looking for opportunity, and what you’re implying didn’t happen in the slightest. I’m not sure where you got this idea from, but this is completely unrealistic fearmongering.

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          3 months ago

          Uh… you think 66% of India’s population is going to pack up and move to the US? Do you seriously believe what you’re saying?

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            3 months ago

            Do we also give out pensions and free medical to everybody that comes in? Do they have to pay into the system for a period first? We can barely keep up with the people we have in Canada. Few million more and we’re swamped.

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      3 months ago

      If we had worldwide open borders why would people from India go to the US instead of China or the EU?

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        3 months ago

        Because we’re never going to have worldwide open borders. Humanity is going to off itself before then.

        ALSO BECAUSE we’re specifically talking about abolishing ice here, so… seems like a united states centered conversation. I’d put money on the united states having open borders before either china or the eu.